Thursday, April 30, 2015

We
hope Marquette can pick up one of the top available players fromour rankings
here. Tonight we run through the competition -
ranking all the conferences competing with the Big East for bids, and ranking
both their teams and top 40 players.

We were one of the few that did NOT pick Stephen F. Austin to beat Utah in March Madness. Apparently many TV commentators do not realize that defense (Utah) is every important as the high scoring offenses in the most exciting conference in the country. It is unheard of for a low-major conference to have four of the top 67 players in the country, but starting with potential All-American Jalan West and SFA's Thomas Walkup, this is the conference to watch.Last year Incarnate Word stunned Nebraska - this year they might not be the big underdog.

Natl Rnk

Conference

Team

Record

Raw

Value Add

25

Southland

Slnd

10.03

44

Stephen F. Austin

29--5

27.23

26.70

139

Sam Houston St.

26--9

10.23

16.15

171

Northwestern St.

19--13

18.82

15.06

199

Texas A&M Corpus Christi

20--14

12.72

12.83

225

Incarnate Word

18--11

10.60

11.15

279

Lamar

15--15

6.98

8.49

294

New Orleans

11--18

8.43

7.51

301

Houston Baptist

12--16

8.25

7.22

304

Southeastern Louisiana

9--23

7.45

6.87

321

McNeese St.

15--16

3.50

5.73

322

Nicholls St.

10--19

6.81

5.69

341

Abilene Christian

10--21

3.52

3.56

343

Central Arkansas

2--27

5.16

3.46

Natl Rnk

Top 40 Players

Team

Ht

Yr

Value Add

17

West, Jalan 12

Northwestern St.

5'10

4 Sr

8.63

21

Walkup, Thomas 0

Stephen F. Austin

6'4

4 Sr

8.41

45

Woodley, Zikiteran 23

Northwestern St.

6'2

3 Jr

7.49

67

Charles, Ty 4

Stephen F. Austin

6'5

2 So

6.71

338

Amin, Ehab 4

Texas A&M Corpus Christi

6'3

2 So

4.26

360

Ibarra, Josh 44

Houston Baptist

6'10

2 So

4.14

709

Hittle, Kyle 4

Incarnate Word

6'5

4 Sr

2.91

746

Floyd, Demetrious 1

Stephen F. Austin

5'11

2 So

2.81

771

Johnson, Jared 3

Stephen F. Austin

6'0

4 Sr

2.74

778

Johnson, Shawn 10

Incarnate Word

6'4

2 So

2.71

819

Williams, Jamal 20

Sam Houston St.

6'4

2 So

2.63

972

Thomas, Quinton 23

Nicholls St.

6'2

2 So

2.32

1006

Majauskas, Aurimas 34

Sam Houston St.

6'7

3 Jr

2.24

1030

Kennedy, Christian

Lamar

6'10

3 Jr

2.2

1048

Joubert, Derrell 23

McNeese St.

6'1

2 So

2.18

1191

Thomas, Rashawn 25

Texas A&M Corpus Christi

6'7

3 Jr

1.99

1230

Badillo, Mitchell 2

Incarnate Word

5'10

4 Sr

1.92

1240

Lopez, Jesse 5

Sam Houston St.

6'7

2 So

1.9

1298

Currie, Jelani 11

Texas A&M Corpus Christi

6'4

4 Sr

1.82

1332

Pinkney, Trey 10

Stephen F. Austin

5'9

4 Sr

1.78

1333

Geffrard, Clide 11

Stephen F. Austin

6'5

4 Sr

1.78

1336

Wentz, Parker 3

Abilene Christian

5'9

4 Sr

1.77

1348

Cooke, Austin 12

Abilene Christian

6'7

4 Sr

1.75

1387

Sears, Dontavious 23

Lamar

6'4

4 Sr

1.71

1440

Baxter, Paul 21

Sam Houston St.

6'1

4 Sr

1.63

1480

Walker, Jontrell 0

Incarnate Word

6'1

2 So

1.58

1527

McBeath, Sam 15

Nicholls St.

6'7

4 Sr

1.53

1543

Gill, Christavious 5

New Orleans

5'8

3 Jr

1.52

1564

Howard, Jordan 1

Central Arkansas

5'11

2 So

1.49

1566

Thomas, Liam 24

Nicholls St.

6'10

3 Jr

1.49

1612

Rumph, Zach 13

Southeastern Louisiana

5'11

2 So

1.43

1628

Thompson, Sabri 21

Northwestern St.

6'3

3 Jr

1.41

1651

Douvier, Bryce 23

Texas A&M Corpus Christi

6'7

4 Sr

1.38

1657

Thibodeaux, Travin 25

New Orleans

6'8

2 So

1.37

1661

Jackson, Zay 10

Southeastern Louisiana

6'0

4 Sr

1.37

1718

Pye, Brandon 0

Texas A&M Corpus Christi

6'0

4 Sr

1.29

1733

Odunsi, Anthony 35

Houston Baptist

6'4

4 Sr

1.27

1738

Frye, Nate 3

New Orleans

6'1

3 Jr

1.27

1750

Martin, Michael 30

Central Arkansas

6'0

4 Sr

1.25

1793

Milligan, Michael 0

Central Arkansas

6'6

2 So

1.19

These are the top 40 players in the conference based on the
rankings at www.valueaddbasketball.com.
The team rankings are 50% based on the sum of each team’s Value Add ratings and
50% based on last year (since better teams typically replenish after losing
stars). With over 4000 players projected in the database, we WELCOME all
corrections in the comments field.

Value Add was first introduced on www.crackedsidewalks.com, and
calculates how many points better each player is worth to his team over how
good they would be if he was replaced. The projections measure the standard
improvement in a player between his freshman, sophomore, junior and senior
seasons, and the evaluation of incoming freshman and JUCO players.